Rose Diseases
Prevention and Treatment: Keeping the area clean is more important than anything else. Collect and discard all fading flower blossoms and leaves. Provide good air circulation, and avoid wetting the leaves when ... [... more]
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Brown Patch Disease Of Lawns
Fungicides can be difficult to rely upon for controlling brown patch in the home lawn but regular applications can vastly improve appearance. A good "rule of thumb" to follow on either cool- or warm-season grasses is ... [... more]
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Leaf Diseases Of Lawns
Prevention and Treatment: Adequate fertilization will help the lawn overcome this disease. Prevent thatch buildup and remove excess thatch. Avoid drought stress by watering the lawn deeply, and thoroughly when needed ... [... more]
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Mole Cricket Management For The Home Lawn
Adult mole crickets are light brown to black insects depending on the species and about 1 to 1½ inches in length. Their front legs are short and stout and well adapted for tunneling in the soil. Mole crickets can be ... [... more]
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Nematode Problems In Home Lawns
All types of lawns grown in South Carolina can be affected by nematodes. The most damage occurs to lawns grown in the sandy coarse textured soils of our state. The Sandhills areas of the Carolinas and the sandy ... [... more]
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Bean Diseases
Prevention and Treatment: Prevent this disease by using certified disease-free seed for planting and removing all plant debris after harvest. Anthrac-nose can survive in the soil for two years on plant debris or be ... [... more]
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Bean And Southern Pea Insects
Mexican Bean Beetle: The Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis) is ¼ to 1/3 inch long, very convex and yellow to coppery-brown in color. Each wing cover has eight small, black spots that form three rows across ... [... more]
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Cabbage, Broccoli And Other Cole Crop Diseases
Yellows or wilt is a much less important disease today due to the development of varieties resistant to the disease. The disease is caused by the fungus, Fusarium oxysporum forma specialis conglutinans, and most ... [... more]
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Entomology
All of the caterpillars (larvae of moths and butterfies) infesting cole crops can be effectively controlled using one of the Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) products. B.t. is a microbial insecticide that contains ... [... more]
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Sweet Corn Diseases
In South Carolina there are two main viruses that are a problem on corn, Maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV) and Maize chlorotic dwarf virus (MCDV). Symptoms of these virus diseases can easily be mistaken for other ... [... more]
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Insect Pests Of Sweet Corn
Consider cultural control methods for cutworms, seed-corn maggots and corn rootworms as outlined in the discussion of these pests. Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) is a microbial insecticide that contains spores of this ... [... more]
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Cucumber, Squash, Melon And Other Cucurbit Diseases
Prevention and Treatment: There are no chemicals available to kill viruses. Chemical control of the insects that spread the viruses may minimize the disease. This control method is difficult, because infection occurs ... [... more]
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